tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74815824442907904382024-03-14T03:15:21.659-07:00St.Alban the Martyr, Westcliff on Sea.One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-30556897978580496312014-12-22T01:23:00.001-08:002014-12-22T01:23:15.614-08:00MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYBODY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-40237829342989424432014-12-22T01:19:00.003-08:002014-12-22T01:19:49.838-08:00CHRISTMAS SERVICES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Midnight Mass will begin at 11.00 pm on Christmas Eve.</b></span><br />
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Well done at the Nativity to all the children and parents.ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-5163766249604825782014-12-07T09:24:00.002-08:002014-12-11T01:33:14.369-08:00R.I.P.<br />
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It is with great regret that we announce the death of Alfred Russell (1923-2014) who has been the organist at St.Alban's Westcliff for the last fifteen years.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">10th May : Spring Fayre at St. Alban's.</span>ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-13889118604052747152014-04-01T03:08:00.001-07:002014-04-01T03:08:10.322-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">STATIONS OF THE CROSS 12.00 FOLLOWED BY A LIGHT LUNCH.</span><br />
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Click the link above to watch the Archdeacon's video.ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-82524850232461994322013-10-30T05:27:00.002-07:002013-10-30T05:27:54.122-07:00THE FUNERAL OF FRANCES PEARCE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The funeral of Frances Pearce will be held at St. Alban's Church, St. John's Road, Westcliff on Sea at 11.00 am on Friday 1st of November.ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-21138747961139575762013-07-30T21:53:00.002-07:002013-07-30T21:53:20.712-07:00LORD, TEACH US TO PRAYLord of gifts, share with us a hunger for the bread of your kingdom; give us a yearning impatience with injustice; free us from clinging to debts gone bad; teach us to pray with honesty in words filled with earth and lit by Christ, our jubilee.ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-65814743623963441332013-07-03T06:01:00.001-07:002013-07-03T06:03:00.767-07:00LAURENCE D'ARCY STAPLEY (1892 - 1916)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Laurence D'Arcy Stapley was born in Darnley Road, Tottenham, London in 1892 and baptised on 27th November of that year. His father, George Maitland Stapley (1853-1929) was born in Holloway, Islington, North London. George was married to Lucy Jane (nee' Strangeways) and their children were Cecil (b.1886), Edward (1887-1976), Laurence (1892), Lucie, John (1895-1970) and Raymond (b.1905).<br />
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George was a clerk with an East India Merchants and the family moved around a lot - from Darnley Road they went to Reighton Road, Hackney, then to 21 Valentines Road, Ilford and by 1914 they were at 18 Coventry Road, also in Ilford. Sometime early in the war they moved to 37 Preston Road, Westcliff on Sea, where they became members of the the congregation of St.Alban's Church.<br />
George's son, Laurence D'Arcy, who worked as a bank clerk but whose ambition was to train as a missionary, volunteered for the Rifle Brigade and was later commisioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in The Suffolk Regiment and served in the 7th (Volunteer) Battalion. He was killed at The Somme on 12 October 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Monument.<br />
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<br />ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-82116957979402559752013-06-24T08:35:00.001-07:002013-06-29T08:32:25.637-07:00R.I.P. JASON BETTS 1969-2013<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It is with great sadness we report the recent death of Jason Austin Betts, a good man and a much valued member of the congregation of St.Alban the Martyr, Westcliff. Our sincerest condolences go out his wife Tina and the boys as well as to Derek and Marilyn at this difficult time.<br />
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Jason will be much missed by everybody for the kind person and good friend he was and for the countless things he did both in and around the church and for the Scouts.<br />
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<b>Jason's funeral will be at St.Alban's 10.30, Tuesday July 2nd.</b>ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-71248707382929104582013-06-20T13:29:00.001-07:002013-06-20T13:29:34.721-07:00JAMES JOHN THAKE (1876 - 1918)<br />
James John Thake was the son of Richard Thake, a farmworker from Radwinter, Essex and his wife Ellen. He moved to Westcliff to live with his married brother, Cornelius at 77 Avenue Road and later at "Radwinter" 11 Northview Road. Cornelius was a tram driver for Southend Borough Council and a member of the congregation of St.Alban the Martyr Westcliff. James went into the army during the Great War and served as a Private with 10th Battalion Essex Regiment. He was killed in action on 28 April 1918 and is buried at Crouy British Cemetery at Crouy-sur-Somme, France. His name was added to the St.Alban's War Memorial at the request of his brother. Cornelius continued to attend St.Alban's until his death in 1954. A table in the church bears a plaque in his memory. ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-32314279055059216482013-06-16T00:46:00.000-07:002013-06-16T00:46:00.160-07:00REGINALD TOON (1885 - 1916)Reginald Toon was the son of Thomas George Toon and his wife Elizabeth Mary Toon and was born in Nunhead, Surrey (now South London) on 7 January 1885 and baptised at St. Saviour's Southwark (now Southwark Cathedral) on 25 March 1885. Thomas, a Shipping Clerk, and his wife also had a daughter, Elsie. The family moved to Westcliff on Sea, living originally at 30 Genesta Road and later moving to 31 Cranley Rd. Reginald enlisted in the 13th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment at St. Paul's Churchyard, London. He was killed in action 30 June 1916 and is buried in plot III.S.2 at St. Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoe, France. He left £162 8s 7d to his father.<br />
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<br />ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-58816407694090640662013-06-15T14:14:00.001-07:002013-06-20T07:46:14.775-07:00HERBERT ALFRED HOPE 1890 - 1917<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Herbert Alfred Hope was born at 173 Adelaide Road, Hampstead, London on 6 December 1890 to Alfred T. Hope and his wife Emma. Alfred was working as a "printer's traveller". In 1901 the family moved to 142 West Green Road in Tottenham. Alfred started his own printing business at 15-16 Friar Street, London and by April 1911 he and Emma had moved to "Endsleigh" at 8 Manor Road, Westcliff on Sea with their four children, William, Herbert, Leonard and May. During the Great War Herbert, who was working as a clerk/cashier, joined the Army and was commisioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corp. He was sent to the Military school at Thetford for pilot training. He was trained on a Maurice Farnum biplane and received his pilot's wings on 14 March 1917 and was assigned to 25 Squadron on the Western Front.<br />
The life expectancy for a new pilot was very short and so it would be for Herbert. He died on 28 June 1917 from injuries resulting from an accident while landing. He is buried in plot V.A.11 at Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, France. Oddly, the records of The Royal Aero Club give his date of death as 8 August 1917.<br />
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Herbert left £421 15s 5d to his mother in his will. Emma later moved to 108 Hamlet Court Road, Westcliff. She died in 1930.ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-41711064632175473112013-06-09T01:13:00.003-07:002013-06-17T08:45:41.032-07:00CLEMENT THOMAS GROOMBRIDGE (1895 - 1915)Clement Thomas Groombridge was born in Bishop Storford in 1895. His father (also Clement) was a coachman and seemed to have moved around quite a bit. In 1901 the family which consisted of Clement. his parents and two sisters, Florence and Annie, were living in Weymouth Mews, Marylebone, London.<br />
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By 1911 the family were living at 99 St.Helen's Road, Westcliff on Sea and were attending St.Alban's Church in St.John's Road. The elder Clement's profession is listed on the April census as "Jobs Master".<br />
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When war was declared in 1914 Clement was one of the earliest volunteers and rose to the rank of Lieutenant, 4th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment. He died in England and is buried in the Groombridge family grave in plot E4219 in Southend Cemetery, Sutton Road. He is also remembered on The Royal Leicestershire website which now includes updated information from this page and our photograph of the family grave.<br />
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To visit the <a href="http://www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/have-you-a-tiger/record/25622/?s=1">Royal Leicestershire Regiment</a> Website entry on Clement Groombridge click the regiment name.<br />
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<br />ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-31770232430017848252013-06-04T14:44:00.001-07:002013-06-04T14:44:26.661-07:00HAROLD BASIL ALDER (1893 - 1915)Born in Leytonstone, Harold Basil Alder lived with his parents and two sisters, Muriel and Lilian at "Roslea" 33 Anerly Road, Westcliff on Sea. His father, Francis Alder was a printer and secretary of the Southend Choral Society. Harold was educated at Southend High School and later worked as an advertising clerk at his father's London firm. He enlisted in the army in August 1914 and served with The London Regiment Queen Victoria's Rifles rising to the rank of Acting Sergeant. He saw action at Ypres and Hill 60. On Whit Monday 1915 he was returning from a trench digging party when he was hit by enemy fire and wounded in the head and neck. He was taken to a base hospital in Boulogne and died on 25th May 1915.<br />
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<br />ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-50547897667237019972013-06-04T13:46:00.000-07:002013-06-06T07:00:35.038-07:00ERNEST GRAMHOLT BLUCK ADAMSON (1895-1916)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ernest Adamson was born in 1895, in Haringey, North London, the son of William and Amy Adamson. When Ernest was about eleven the family moved to Southend, first to Boscombe Road and then to "Innsbruck" 37 Burdett Avenue. Ernest's first job was as a clerk working for H. Garon in Southend but he soon joined the Merchant Navy with the P&O Line. According to his parents he also saw service on <i>HMS Leonides </i> and <i>HMS Kale. </i>While at home at Christmas 1915 he enlisted in The Royal Fusiliers under the name Ernest Gramholt and served as a Private until his death. He was fatally wounded on the first day of the Battle of The Somme on 1 July 1916 and died eight days later. He also commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France.<br />
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.ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-71522776775852624762013-05-29T14:13:00.000-07:002013-05-29T14:13:06.354-07:00ARTHUR WARNER HUNT (1887 - 1918)Arthur Warner Hunt was born at "St.Hilda" Grove Hill, Woodford, Essex in 1887, the son of George Hunt a paper merchant and his wife Kathleen (nee Warner). By April 1911 the family (which included Arthur's younger brother, George) had moved to 39 St.Helen's Road, Westcliff on Sea. In late 1915 Arthur, who was working as a stockbrokers clerk, married Dorothy Marguerite Bond and they set up home at 185 Hamlet Court Road. On 3 December, shortly after his marriage, Arthur enlisted in The London Regiment (Artists Rifles) at Southend. The following October he was given an acting commision (later confirmed) as a 2nd Lieutenant in 11th Battalion, Esssex Regiment. He was killed in action on 28th April 1918 and is buried at Esquelbecq Military Cemetery (grave 1.A.29) in France.<br />
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<br />ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-70915178664079643622013-05-25T14:28:00.001-07:002013-05-28T13:29:16.166-07:00REGINALD WILLIAM JOHN SHEARS (1887 - 1916)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Reginald William John Shears was born 2 September 1887 in Etheldon Road, Shepherd's Bush, London. He was baptised at St. Stephen's Hammersmith on 20 August 1891. His parents were William Henry Simmons Shears and his wife Dora Harriet. In 1901 the family were living at 57 Cambridge Road, Willsden with Reginald and his sister Norah Renee Alicia. By 1911 the family had moved again, this time to 38 Anerley Road, Westcliff, by which time Reginald was working, like his father, as an architect's assistant. He volunteered for the army when war broke out in 1914 and was posted as a Rifleman to 1/9 Battalion Queen Victoria Rifles. He was killed in action on 1 July 1916. Soon after his death the family moved to "Oban" Blackness, Crowbridge, Surrey. He is also commemorated on the Thiepval Monument in France.ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-15955392493802933342013-05-24T06:37:00.001-07:002013-06-30T11:55:11.568-07:00GATHORNE HARDY (1898 - 1918)Gathorne Hardy deserves an apology. His name appears on the St.Alban's war memorial and in the book of remembrance as "Gaythorne". Gathorne was born in Wood Green in London in 1898. He was the son of successful businessman William Hardy (1838-1907) and his second wife Geraldine.The couple were married at St.Mary Abbots, Kensington in 1896 and their son Gathorne was baptised at St. Michael at Bowes, Bowes Park, Southgate on 24 July 1898.In the baptism book William is described simply as a "Gentleman" but on the later 1901 census we learn that he was a "retired contractor". Soon after this the family, which included William's daugher, Laura, by his first marriage, moved to Westcliff where they took up residence at White Lodge, 38 St.Vincent's Road, Westcliff where the employed one Ada Barker as a servant and Eliza Freakley as a nurse for young Gathorne.<br />
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William Hardy died on 28 May, 1907 leaving a phenomenal (for the time) £32089 11s 8d and Gathorne was sent to be educated at King Alfred's Grammar School at Wantage and Mrs. Hardy moved to "San Remo" 45 Canewdon Road. War broke out in 1914 and as soon as he was old enough Gathorne joined the army and, like so many of his class, was soon commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant and served with The Royal Irish Fusiliers. He was seriously wounded in action on 12 April 1918 at Wulverdhem Nr Midland Farm, taken prisoner by the Germans, and died of his wounds in captivity on 30 April 1918 in Flanders and is buried there in the Kortrijk Communal Cemetery, plot 23, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. In his will he left £57 to his mother (her address is now given as 49 Canewdon Road). Geraldine Hardy returned to London where she died at Kensington, age 83, in 1943.<br />
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As I finished writing the above I decided to visit St.Vincent's Road to photograh "White Lodge", the Hardy home at No.38. Sadly the house no longer exists, having been destroyed by a German bomb on 10 December 1943. The same bomb also destroyed Nos 36 and 34 St.Vincents Road. Frederick Robert Sapey and his wife Lily May lived at 34 - both were killed and both were members of the St.Alban's congregation, their names appearing on the World War Two memorial plaque.<br />
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ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-25917784161299461432013-05-22T09:25:00.000-07:002013-06-19T00:25:56.712-07:00JOHN "JACK" ORMOND SMELLIE (1896 - 1917)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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John "Jack" Ormond Smellie was born in Georgetown, British Guiana on 12 May 1896. His parents were William George Smellie (1865-1946) and his wife Anne Jane Pinkerton McCowan (1866-1941). Young Jack and his elder brother, William (known by his middle name "Archie"), born 2 September 1894, were sent England to be educated at Cranleigh School in Surrey and during the holidays they lived with their uncle Dr. John Clementson Smellie at 273 London Road, Westcliff, Essex. Dr. Smellie was a member of the St. Alban's congregation. Jack excelled in sports and represented his school at Aldershot in both foil and sabre events.<br />
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When war broke out both Jack and his brother joined the army. Jack was commisioned as a Lieutenant in The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. He fought in two engagements on the Somme and wrote of his experiences to his cousin Geoffrey :<br />
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"<i>Since I last wrote, we've been through it. Th</i>e <i>push has begun and I was in at the start. My God, it was bloody hell let loose. We had the whole Division cut up and how I got through, God only knows. It was certain death to anyone going over the parapet and 10 to 1 in the trench. The fellows fell like flies. It was ghastly to say the least. I had half a team knocked out before we had gone ten yards leaving me six men for two guns. I can't give out full details and really I don't want to. We will be in again and though it is a pretty good ordeal, I am longing to have another go at the -----. Archie [his brother] was on my left and came through: he is in again, as apparently his Division did not suffer so badly as ours. He's acting company commander of 'C' Coy. It was very interesting and we managed to get some good work done with the M.G.'s on the Hun counterattacking - stopped him before he got through his own wire even. I had everything torn during our tour of 36 hours fighting, even my boots. I got hung up with a tripod on our own barbed wire. I really had cold feet for a moment then, as it was there that half the team went down. Not only the Hun's first two lines, but our front line was absolutely flattened and it was impossible to walk along, both for dead, wounded and bashed in dugouts. The British have taken 10,000 prisoners up to date along our front."</i><br />
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It was in his third engagement, at Le Sars on the Somme on 1 October 1916, that John was hit in the neck and paralysed while advancing with his men. <i> </i>He was repatriated to England and spent some time at Netley Military Hosptal near Southampton before being moved to Sir John Ellerman Hospital at Regent's Park. John's parents made the perilous wartime sea voyage to England to see their son. William Smellie had to return home in May 1917 but his wife Anne stayed on with her son whose condition worsened until he died on 8 August 1917. He was buried in Sutton Road Cemetery in Southend with full military honours.<br />
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Despite having been wounded on two occasions, including six gunshot wounds, while serving with the Dorsetshire Regiment, Jack's brother, Archie, survived the war and remained in the army, serving with his regiment in India, Malta, Egypt, Sudan and Palestine. Although in his mid-forties he was recalled to the army in 1939 and posted to Dover. He was ship's adjutant on the Isle of Man ferry <i>Mona's Queen</i> when it made its last crossing to Dunkirk on 29 May 1940, hit a mine and sank within two minutes. Archie was rescued by H.M.S. Vanquisher but later fatally injured by a shell burst on the ship and died 1 June 1940. He is buried at Malo-les-Bains Cemetery, Dunkirk. Archie's son, Herbert John "Larry" Orpen-Smellie, continued the famiily military tradition and had a distinguished military career, rising to the rank of Lt. Colonel and becoming a champion rifle marksman, representing his country on many occasions. He also celebrated his 70th birthday by doing a bunjay jump in New Zealand! He passed away in 2002. His son is Lt.Colonel Giles Rackley Orpen-Smellie formerly of The Parachute Regiment, now of The Sandhurst Foundation.<br />
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Dr. John Clementson Smellie, Jack and Archie's uncle, was born in Georgetown, British Guiana on 12 June 1870. He studied medicine in London. He set up his practice as doctor and surgeon in Westcliff on Sea, living in a 12 room house at 39 Leigh Road, Westcliff (Leigh Road was renamed London Road - the original street name can still be seen on the side of the nearby Cricketeers Public house - and the house number became 273). Dr. Smellie married his wife Lilian in 1900 and they had two children, both born in Westcliff, Rachel (born 1903) and James (born 1904). In 1911 the family employed two servants, Daisy Clarissa Chapman and Alice Matilda Norman. After his retirement Dr. Smellie moved to "Hillsboro" 39 Fernside Road, Poole, Dorset. He died on 12 Sept 1943 (his wife died the previous year) leaving £8820 to a fellow doctor. The house at 273 London Road was boarded up for many years but has now been restored and is occupied again. <br />
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1 July 1916, 70 Brigade was serving as part of 8 Division in III Corps.
They were the left brigade of the left division of the Corps with X
Corps on their left. Archie served in 1 DORSETs, which was part of 14
Infantry Brigade of 32 Division in X Corps. They were the right brigade
of the right division of X Corps. Thus the brigades in which the two
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Brigade returned from 8 Division to 23 Division on 17 July 1916. The
divisional history of the 23 Division reports Jack being wounded while
describing the Division's attack on Flers on 1 October 1916. It seems
that he was hit in the neck and was paralyzed. It was as a result of
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ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-13431357025058691102013-05-18T05:14:00.000-07:002013-05-23T06:12:16.114-07:00KATHARINE TALFOURD (1833 - 1915) AND HER FAMILYIt is only recently that we discovered that two of the windows in our church have connections, indirectly, with both Charles Dickens and the poet William Wordsworth. The connection comes through Katharine Talfourd who is commemorated on a window in the north aisle. Although we know that Katharine regularly attended the church and learn from the window that she was an early benefactress, the window, surprisingly gives us more information about her father than it does about her.<br />
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Katharine Talfourd was born in 1833 in Bloomsbury, London. She never married and lived most of her life either with her parents or her younger brother William. In 1861 she was living in Margate, Kent with her mother, Rachel at "Retreat" St.Peter's Road. After her mother's death in 1875 she went to live with her brother, William Wordsworth Talfourd at the Rectory in Winceby, Lincolnshire where William was the Rector.<br />
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When her brother became rector of St.Peter's in Thundersley, Essex they continued to live together until William's death in 1900. Katharine then moved to 29 Valkyrie Road in Westcliff on Sea where she lived with two female servants. She attended St.Alban's Church until she died on 17 April 1915. The St.Katharine window in the north aisle of the church bears a dedication in her memory. Opposite in the south aisle under another window, depicting St.Augustine and St.Alphegue, there is a brass plaque in memory of her brother, William Wordsworth Talfourd.<br />
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<b>Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd</b>, (26 May 1795 – 13 March 1854), was an English judge and author. The son of a well-to-do brewer, he was born at Reading, Berkshire. He received his early education at Hendon and at the Reading Grammar school. At the age of eighteen he was sent to London to study law. Early in 1821 he joined the Oxford circuit, having been called to the bar earlier in the year. Fourteen years later, when he was created a sergeant-at-law, and when again he in 1849 succeeded Mr. Justice Coltman as judge of the Court of Common Pleas, he earned these distinctions more by his laborious care in the conduct of cases than for his brilliance in court.<br />
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At the general election in 1835 he was elected MP for the Parliamentary Borough of Reading,
a result repeated in the general election of 1837. He chose not to run
in the general election of 1841, but ran again in the general election
of 1847 and was elected again. In the House of Commons he introduced a Copyright
Bill in 1837; his speech on this subject was considered the most
telling made in the House during that session. However, the dissolution
of Parliament in 1837 following the death of William IV
meant that the Bill had to be reintroduced in the new Parliament in
1838. By that time, the bill met with strong opposition and did not pass
that year. Talfourd re-introduced the Bill again in 1839, 1840 and
1841, the Bill failing to pass in each of those years. It finally became
law in 1842, albeit in a greatly modified form, and at a time when
Talfourd was not in Parliament. Charles Dickens dedicated <i>The Pickwick Papers</i> to Talfourd. Sir Thomas was also a respected literary figure and the author of both plays and literary criticism. He was an early champion of the works of the poet William Wordsworth and named his own son after him. Another of his sons was Francis (Frank) Talfourd (1828-1862) a successful dramatist famous for his burlesques of Shakespeare and classical subjects.<br />
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Talfourd died in 1854 in Stafford after having an "apoplectic seizure" in court while addressing the jury from his judge's seat at the Shire Hall, where he is commemorated by a bust, sculpted by John Graham Lough. Charles Dickens attended his funeral at West Norwood Cemetery.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">South Aisle window dedicated to William Wordsworth Talfourd</td></tr>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Norwood_Cemetery" title="West Norwood Cemetery"> </a>ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-73100084713215327322013-05-18T00:54:00.000-07:002013-05-18T01:50:13.274-07:00THE LEATHERDALE BROTHERS<i>The Leatherdale Brothers have no obvious connection with St.Alban's Church or Westcliff. The most likely explanation for their inclusion on the St.Alban's War Memorial is that a relative, name unknown, was a member of the congregation.</i><br />
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Alan Richard Leatherdale was born in Catford, South London 8 May 1897 and baptised on 12 September at St.Jude's East Brixton. The parent's names are given as George Fenning Leatherdale and Mabel Gertrude Leatherdale (nee' Parsons) who also had a daughter, Phyllis, and lived at 12 Norfolk Road, Catford. Later the family moved to 22 Westholm Green, Letchworth. Alan was educated at St. Anne's, Redhill and by private tutor at Dunton Waylett Rectory, Essex. He was employed at the London County and Westminster Bank in Andover.When war broke out Alan joined the volunteer force and offered himself for Officer Training College. When he was rejected on grounds of health he joined The Royal Fusiliers and reached the rank of Corporal. He was killed in action on 18 September 1916 at Flers on The Somme. In his will he left £200 to his mother who was by then living in Andover, Hants. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Monument.<br />
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Like his younger brother, Donald Ryan Leatherdale was born in Catford, South London (1896) and educated at Christ's Hospital. He was employed by The Royal Exchange Insurance Company. At the outbreak of the war he joined the Artist's Rifles and volunteered for foreign service and served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in 1st Battn (50th Foot) Queen's Own West Kent Regiment in June 1915. On 22 July 1916 he was seen to be wounded while leading his men into action at High Wood and was later presumed to have died that day. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Monument. A comrade wrote "He went into action like a brave Britisher and a gentleman with not the slightest fear of death."<br />
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<br />ernesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254824743956095918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481582444290790438.post-9138011768040248582013-05-09T15:48:00.001-07:002013-06-02T00:39:49.764-07:00THE TWO ECCLES CARTERS (1854 - 1930) and (1892 - 1914)<u><br />
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Eccles Carter was born in 1854 in Taunton Somerset. He came Southend in the 1890's with his wife, Emily, and two daughters. Eccles was a Stock Exchange agent and lived at 3 Clifton Terrace, Southend. He was one of the earliest choirmasters at St.Alban's Church. In the Memorial Chapel (The Holy Name Chapel) there is a metal cross which, within its hollow base, has the inscription "<i>Gift</i> <i>of the Choirmen in gratitude for the services of their choirmaster Eccles Carter</i>, <i>Christmas 1901</i>" It is possible that this gift to the church was made at the time of Carter leaving the church and retiring to his native West Country where he died 24 February 1930.<br />
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Some confusion has been caused by the fact that the name Eccles Carter also appears on the First World War Memorial plaque. After some research I can state categorically that this is <i>not </i>the same Eccles Carter who was choirmaster at the church. This is how I believe the mistake was made: In <i>The Southend Standard</i> of 9 October 1914 their appeared a report of the death of Royal Naval Lieutenant Eccles Carter (b. Kensington 1892) who was lost on <i>H.M.S. Pathfinder</i> on 5 September of that year. I believe that somebody at the newspaper recognised the distinctive name and wrote in the paper that he was "late of Westcliff", not realising that they were two different people. Because of this his name was added to the War Memorial while Eccles the choirmaster enjoyed his retirement elsewhere!<br />
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As Lt. Carter appears on the memorial plaque (even if by mistake) it is worth saying something about the circumstances of his death. <i>Pathfinder</i> was sunk off St. Abbs Head, Berwickshire,Scotland on Saturday 5 September 1914 by the German U-21, commanded by Lieutnant zur<i> </i>See Otto Hersing.
Typical of the scout cruisers' poor endurance, she was so short of coal
whilst on patrol that she could only manage a speed of 5 knots, making
her an easy target. The ship was struck in a magazine, which exploded causing the ship to sink within minutes with the loss of 259 men. The explosion was actually seen by Aldous Huxley who was staying at Abbs House at the time. He wrote about it in a letter to his father dated 14 September<i> : "I dare say Julian told you that we actually saw the Pathfinder
explosion — a great white cloud with its foot in sea. The St. Abbs'
lifeboat came in with the most appalling accounts of the scene. There
was not a piece of wood, they said, big enough to float a man—and over
acres the sea was covered with fragments—human and otherwise. They
brought back a sailor's cap with half a man's head inside it. The
explosion must have been frightful. It is thought to be a German
submarine that did it, or, possibly, a torpedo fired from one of the
refitted German trawlers, which cruise all round painted with British
port letters and flying the British flag."</i><br />
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